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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:44:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: Python bug? Indexing to matrices
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:39 PM, David <davidbtdt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should the following line work for defining a matrix with zeros?
>
> c= [[0]*col]*row
>
> where "col" is the number of columns in the matrix and "row" is of
> course the number of rows.

Nope. See the FAQ:
http://docs.python.org/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-create-a-multidimensional-list

Cheers,
Chris